Think about long term. This won't be the first and last app you develop. Have confidence in your dev skills. Treat this as a learning experience. Make a good choice. Execute well. Learn from the choice so you can do even better next time.

Does this count under the French three strike rule? I bet it will. Nothing like a good threat to extract the upper hand in negotiations. I'll bet some mouthy minister takes up the threat to cut off Google's Internet access under the three strike rule. Nationalism, populism and greed will surely overpower any talk about citizen's benefits. The big loser is not Google, it's the citizens of France.

As the project leader for the open source French Verb Conjugation Rules Database project at SourceForge, I hope Microsoft considers the prior art contained within it. The database contains RegEx expressions for conjugating and infinitizing French verbs. The database is in Microsoft Access because it easily handles Unicode. Algorithms were written in .Net. http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=49 0001 The world needs more open source versions of similar databases and linguistic algorithms. Language processing databases and software are ideal global open source projects. I would greatly value an open source project that documents syntax forms and algorithms for the world's languages. I have not found such a project.